California Governor Gavin News has asked the United States Federal Government for $ 40 billion (£ 31.6 billion) funds to help renovate Los Angeles areas relaxed in January.
News was sent to the Congress leaders in a letter on Friday. He said the funds would help both directly and long -term work on recovery.
“I ask the congress that it has the back of the American people and provides disaster funds to help the Californians recover and recover as soon as possible,” he wrote on social networks.
The fires, which began on January 7, burned 37,469 acres and killed at least 26 people in the area of the great Los Angeles.
The funds would be used to recover labor, tax incentives, fire resistance and rearrangement of private assets, he told News.
According to the proposal of Newsom, the highest share in the means – 42% – would go to public aid in working removal and repair of debris.
“The influential communities have experienced a wide devastation and the overall impact on the economy of California will take years to fully qualify,” he wrote in the letter.
About 150,000 inhabitants have been displaced since the fires broke out in early January.
Much of the Los Angeles community in Pacific Palisadams and Altadeni was destroyed during the flame day.
The request has attracted the support of some lawmakers representing the area.
“This package will provide injection with the desperately needed federal assistance to renovate homes, companies and institutions in the community, which will support the healing process for Angelenos, who suffers the sadness and trauma of loss of loved ones, homes and all affiliation he nurtured,” Judy Chu, Democratic Congress The woman, she said in a statement.
It is not clear how the request will be received in Congress, where both chambers are controlled by Republicans with a narrow majority.
Last month, on the eve of the visit to Los Angeles, President Donald Trump told Fox News that he did not think that the Federal Government should give California “anything” until she transferred the water supply to the south of the state.
After visiting Palisadam, Trump described destruction as “destruction.”
“I don’t think you can figure out how rude it is, how devastating it is until you see it,” Trump said. “I mean, I saw a lot of bad things on television, but the scope of that, the size of it, we flew over it in a helicopter.”